Child sexual abuse is a traumatising event for whole families. Supporting families during this time can be extremely difficult. This guide aims to improve your understanding of how to support parents and carers when there are concerns of, or incidents, of child sexual abuse.
Understand the particular relevance of trauma-informed practice when working with young people experiencing harm such as exploitation, recognise trauma response behaviours and create safety and trust.
This episode discusses why sibling sexual abuse can be so challenging for social workers, how to work with the whole family and the shame, blame and denial of parents, as well as the fact that both the child who has been harmed and the child who has harmed are children, and use this opportunity to make a real positive difference to their lives and longer term outcomes.
This episode discusses why sibling sexual abuse can be so challenging for social workers, how to work with the whole family and the shame, blame and denial of parents, as well as the fact that both the child who has been harmed and the child who has harmed are children, and use this opportunity to make a real positive difference to their lives and longer term outcomes.
Learn how the contextual safeguarding approach was developed, how it has been applied to date and how you might use it in your own practice.
Current research on why sexual abuse of Black girls is often missed, with suggestions for social workers and leaders to improve practice